 When we see men grow old and die at a certain time one after another, from century to century, we laugh at the elixir that promises to prolong life to a thousand years; and with equal justice may the lexicographer be derided who, being able to produce...  Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson - Σελίδα 296των Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 323 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Samuel Johnson - 1901 - 206 σελίδες
...now begin to fear that I have indulged expectation which neither reason norexperience can justify. When we see men grow old and die at a certain time...preserved their words and phrases from mutability, shall imagine that his dictionary can embalm his language, and secure it from corruption and decay, that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 σελίδες
...that I have indulged expectation which neither reason nor experience can justify. When we see men 5 grow old and die at a certain time one after another,...being able to produce no example of a nation that has 10 preserved their words and phrases from mutability, shall imagine that his dictionary can embalm... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 σελίδες
...now begin to fear that I have indulged expectation which neither reason nor experience can justify. When we see men grow old and die at a certain time...preserved their words and phrases from mutability, shall imagine that his dicv tionary can embalm his language, and secure it from corruption and decay, —... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 σελίδες
...now begin to fear that I have indulged expectation which neither reason nor experience can justify. When we see men grow old and die at a certain time...preserved their words and phrases from mutability, shall imagine that his dictionary can embalm his language, and secure it from corruption and decay, — that... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 752 σελίδες
...now begin to fear that I have indulged expectation which neither reason nor experience can justify. When we see men grow old and die at a certain time...preserved their words and phrases from mutability, shall imagine that his dictionary can embalm his language, and secure it from corruption and decay, — that... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 σελίδες
...which neither reason nor experience can justify. When we see men grow old and die at a certain tune one after another, from century to century, we laugh...preserved their words and phrases from mutability, shall imagine that his dio tionary can embalm his language, and secure it from corruption and decay, —... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1916 - 674 σελίδες
...Dictionary was to fix the English language ; but, in the preface, he confessed he had been too sanguine. We laugh at the elixir that promises to prolong life...equal justice may the lexicographer be derided, who . . . shall imagine that his dictionary can embalm his language, and secure it from corruption and... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1916 - 684 σελίδες
...the preface, he confessed he had been too sanguine. We laugh at the elixir that promises to prolong1 life to a thousand years ; and with equal justice may the lexicographer be derided, who . . . shall imagine that his dictionary can embalm his language, and secure it from corruption and... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1917 - 758 σελίδες
...Dictionary was to fix the English language; but, in the preface, he confessed he had been too sanguine. We laugh at the elixir that promises to prolong life...equal justice may the lexicographer be derided, who . . . shall imagine that his dictionary can embalm his language, and secure it from corruption and... | |
 | Charles Carpenter Fries - 1927 - 210 σελίδες
...life to a thousand years; and with equal justice may the lexicographer be derided, who, being unable to produce no example of a nation that has preserved their words and phrases from mutability, shall imagine that his dictionary can embalm his language, and secure it from corruption and decay, that... | |
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